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  12. US Politics

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    9 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:
    Trump is on a mad tirade today.  His usual M.O. is to scream lies as loudly as he can.  He's harping on Mueller not being "Senate approved" because his own AG was not Senate approved.    The Special Counsel doesnt need senate approval, was appointed by Trump's own AG and was universally endorsed and would easily have received Senate approval had it been needed.  As we speak there is a bi-partisan motion in the Senate to protect Mueller.

    And he still wants you to think Mueller is a Democrat.  He's a Republican.  Trump is desperate.  

    He also ignores the fact that Mueller has twice had senate approval from his time as FBI director and that Mueller was originally appointed by W.

  14. Movin' on to take on the Calgary Stampeders!!!!

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    6 hours ago, CodyT said:

    It’s not that , it’s buying the flight. Can get them dirt cheap right now but if the bombers win you know the flights will go through the roof 

    I think finding a place to stay last minute would be worse unless you have friends there. Hotels gouge like crazy for Grey Cup (at least double their usual rates). 

    If you can't get a flight, try the train. It takes longer but trains are great.

  15. Game Day Thread- Week Twenty Two, Western Semi-Final: Winnipeg Blue Bombers @ Saskatchewan Riders November 11th, 2018

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    On 2018-11-12 at 12:44 PM, trueBlue83 said:

    There were plenty of fans on the way out of the stadium complaining about how the missed called on Jeffcoat cost them the game.   They had 100 yards passing all night, but magically, they were going to complete a 50 yarder on the last play of the game.  The argument from one guy, 'there might have been a PI penalty on the hail Mary' .  Just delusional some of them.  Had a good chat with a level headed fan on the bus though.  He congratulated us, and said the reason they lost was they couldn't stop Harris. Some are good, but there will always be whiners!

    A little earlier in the quarter Suitor mentioned that Bridge hadn’t completed a pass over 20 yards since July. Would have needed more than magic.

  17. Around the League: 2018 Season

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    40 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

    I didn't realize salary cap included support staff. Is that common across other professional sports?

    The football operations salary cap is not part of the players salary cap. This June article from TSN explains the cap:

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    The Canadian Football League has approved measures aimed at controlling football operations costs beyond those of player salaries, according to league sources.

    The CFL has had a salary management system for more than a decade that applies to players. However, costs related to coaching and other non-player football expenses haven’t been capped – until now.

    The new measures will limit teams to a coaching staff of 11 and other football operations staff to 17. The total compensation for those 28 employees is not to exceed $2.738 million. Player salaries are capped at $5.2 million for the upcoming season.

    These measures, passed recently by the league’s board of governors, will go into effect for the 2019 season.

    The league is also planning to enact measures that would control costs on other non-player football expenses, like mini-camps and scouting budgets.

    The subject of non-player football expense was discussed in January when the team presidents met in Banff, Alta.

    “One of the things we did this winter, we did a complete breakdown of our financials coast to coast, looking at where our revenues and expenses are. What we found is there were some incongruities in the way we operate our businesses,” said CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie during a visit to TSN on Monday. “Our players’ salaries are capped, but we had some other expenses that were growing significantly faster than our revenues so we started to dig in and look at those … Our non-player football operation costs have been growing much more quickly than other expenses.”

    While the new measures may result in some teams having to cut costs before the start of the 2019 season, the league’s primary objective is to prevent the escalation on non-player football operations.

    “It’s a little bit like an arms race. Someone hires a person for a position and somebody wants to match them,” Ambrosie said. “It’s this game of ongoing escalation that we need to bring to an end.”

     

    I don't know if any other leagues do it.

  19. US Politics

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    1 hour ago, The Unknown Poster said:

    Isn’t it weird that the caravan invasion of terrorists that required a massive military response isn’t worth talking about since the elections? 

    The worst part is the troops are still there and will be until mid-December unless the orders are changed. Of course, Capt. Bone Spurs doesn't care about the troops being away from their families for US Thanksgiving. He'll just let them stay at the border twiddling their thumbs, sleeping in tents and eating crappy rations while adding hundreds of millions to the US debt. Just add this to the list of ways he's disrespected the military.

  20. US Politics

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    4 hours ago, The Unknown Poster said:

    I guess doctored video won’t stand up in court so they have to come up with a new story.   

    They'll have to doctor it up some more to show the intern asking for the mic instead of trying to grab it while he was speaking.

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